Simpson Middle School has become the first middle school in the Cobb County School District to be designated a STEAM school.
STEAM is STEM-based learning (science, technology, engineering and math) with an arts and language-based component.
“Students at Simpson are using the arts to demonstrate what they’ve learned in math, English and even science classes. Their teachers have worked hard to help students see how the concepts that they are learning are integrated from one class to the next. This approach to learning mirrors the real world,” Dr. Sally Creel, Cobb Schools Supervisor of STEM and Innovation, said in a statement.
Simpson is one of 25 Cobb schools to have STEM or STEAM designation. Last year, Kerri Waller, an art teacher at Simpson, was the recipient of a Cobb STEM Distinguished Educator Award.
In 2017 Wheeler became the first Georgia high school to earn STEAM certification, and earlier this year it was named the No. 2 STEM program in the country.
The other East Cobb schools certified for STEM by the district include Brumby, East Side, Shallowford Falls, Sope Creek and Tritt elementary schools; Hightower Trail, Mabry and McCleskey middle schools and Lassiter, Pope, Walton and Wheeler high schools.
Lassiter, Tritt and Wheeler are also STEM-certified by the state.
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